Daniel Roberts is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Government, studying Comparative Political Economy in Rich Democracies and Contemporary Political Theory. His primary substantive interests are at the intersection of three topics — Education, Housing, and Finance/Credit. In his dissertation project on the “Politics of Opportunity in Advanced Democracies”, Daniel studies how historical choices and political spillovers in these institutional domains condition individual behavior and politicians’ reform agendas during structural economic transitions, encompassing representative cases across North America, Europe, and East Asia. His methodological approaches are eclectic, including quantitative methods (administrative data, public surveys, formal theory), qualitative methods (comparative historical process tracing), and contemporary normative theory (CPE, political constraints and normative institutional prescription). Previously Daniel received a B.A. in Economics at the University of Chicago with a focus on macroeconomics, and was a Research Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York researching Capital Markets and Bank Supervision.
Contact
danielroberts@g.harvard.edu
My Website
1737 Cambridge Street
Subfields
Political Thought and its History | Comparative Politics | Methods and Formal Theory
Academic Interests
Bureaucracy | Education Policy | Ethics | Institutions | Modern and Contemporary Political Thought | Political Economy & Development | Political Geography | Public Policy | Social Policy & the Welfare State
Research Methods
Qualitative Methods | Quantitative Methods
Geographic Regions of Study
Japan | Europe | United States